Although the film includes interviews with other political figures and leaders, Mr Putin is undoubtedly the headliner.

The trailer begins with Mr Solovyev dramatically asking, “Vladimir Vladimirovich, is there going to be a war?”

“You mean a global war?” the president responds, before launching into a speech on the dangers of nuclear weapons.

“I would like to think that there is not a person on the planet crazy enough to decide to use nuclear weapons,” he said, adding that this would lead to a “planetary catastrophe”.

At the same time, he said Russia would continue to improve its own nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence.

“The nuclear triad is the basis of our nuclear safety policy, but we have never waved around and never will wave around this nuclear truncheon, even though in our military doctrine it is given a proper place and proper role,” Mr Putin said.

Another of Mr Putin’s main messages in the film was that the West mistakenly believed Moscow wanted to bring back the Soviet Union.

“As for Ukraine and the post-Soviet space in general, I am actually convinced that the position of our Western partners, both European and American, is connected not with protecting the interests of Ukraine, but with an attempt to prevent the revival of the Soviet Union, and no one wants to believe us when we say it is not our goal to restore the Soviet Union,” Mr Putin said.

According to him, such thinking is counterproductive and Russo-phobic.

“As I have already said, these are relics of the Cold War, of the past, and it is these things that don’t let us move forward. Europe was expanded, broadened at the expense of Eastern European countries, which with great suspicion have always regarded the Soviet Union, and that (suspicion) has been shifted to contemporary Russia,” Mr Putin said.

He also praised the Kremlin’s actions in Syria, saying the “integrity” of Moscow’s positon on the conflict gave its campaign “power”.

At approximately the same time those comments aired, Human Rights Watch accused Russia of using cluster bombs against civilians in Syria and the BBC reported that Russia’s latest air strike on Idlib killed at least 43 people.

Such documentary films featuring Mr Putin are widely seen as the president’s way of promoting his image among the domestic audience. A similar film, The Path to the Motherland, was broadcast on Russia’s state-run channels last March.